Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-08-23
AN APPLE WOMAN'S STORY


The bar1, an as sound as ever growed.
Thank We, sir. Am ! doing . good busi-
pcesf In gineral, I do-there be hapes Of
folks comes TO these Offices, an they buys
liberal, but today it's dirty an sloppy, an
they're all in a hurry. It's a good stand
have, amy way, God be praisedl an av
wor taken sick ! have enough in the
hank to nurse an to bury me daycent,
without AKIN charity. An my good luck
al KEN suddin.
II must be an interestin' storyi Well,
] dunno; but ! don't mind tellin' nv you
care to listen. You see, Mickey McAvoy
an I had been married six years an we
had but one by, but he was a fine one, an
W were dom well. Mickey was sober an
industrious, an ambitious of ownin' o
farm out in the west, where they do be
givin' 'em away, av you've the names to
stock thin an git to thim-for he'd been
brought up on q big farm on the ovid sod
beyant. But IL wasn't to be.
The by he TUX sick wan day wild the
dipthery, an In spite of all the doctor
could do-sorra the little they kin do whin
yer times come-he died. The heart wa
bruk o. me, but Mickey TUX it harder, an
that's sayin' o dale, seem that | was the
6'y's mother. The day after the funeral
Mickey had to 60 10 work or lose q job,
an, whether It was wild the sorrow or
what, poor Mickey's fut slipped on the
ladder, an him nigh TO the top, an they
brought him home dead.
Wed saved somethin' betune us-he
Wild the hod and / wild the washin'-but
what wild the funeral-ani illigant IL was,
A-nluA AA..A. ~ ...l
nothin' Of lashin's OF the best at the wake
Il he'd but tin dollars an some cints left,
an ! cast around to do somethin' TO kape
the life in me, for / was too worn out for
the washin'. so l got q basket an l filled
Il with apples an paynuts an whit roun'
70 the Offices to sell 'em. An I did well,
too. The young clarks'd buy the apples
sometimes, an the ~janitors an Office b'ys
the paynuts, an I made out to pay the
rint Of my o an TO get the bite an
the sup.
Wan day whin I KEN home Mrs. Fin.
uerty, who lived on the fiure below an
whose husband is o brick mason, SEE to
me, sez she: ''Did you hear that noise las
night, o. groanin' in the room back o.
yey' 81 didn't" SEE /, ''av il was in the
night, for I Shape sound "Well," she
SEE, sits the gerril that runs the sewin'
machine, she SEE, AM she's sick an I've
been there to-day, an will ye help a little
to-nighty'' she SEE, 'for I've the baby to
mind" ~ will" SEE !, an I did. The
Rerril's name was Cherry Bashford, an
dacent she was, for q lone, dissholute
orfian, an kept herself alone an meddled
an made wild no wan. The doctor KEN,
AMI aha ao.n xnf nall ~, the anlI .nt sLa
faver, an she an l got quite friendly,
though she was a lady bred, poor as she
was, any one could see that, an as for
beauty, the ladies ye see in them carriages
on the strates couldn't hould a candle 3
her. An she always called me Mrs. Nc
Avoy. II wa never "Biddy' wild her,
cir, which is not the way to spake to Q
WILDLY wild q good character.
We got quite frien'ly, as / said, an wan
day ! said to her, SEE /, Miss Bashford,
you do be lonely up there in yer ROOM" /
eez, a what'd all We about moyin' your
machine into my room-there's a dure
betune US, and ye'd be company" SEE /.
"But,'' ser she, Though I'm much
obliged to ye, i won't; but Wen kape the
dure open in daytime, n III kape an eye
on your room whin yer away" So
fren'ly did we git, an she q born lady,
- ! said before.
Wan day I KEN TO this very buildin'
Wild my basket, an in ! goes to wan Office
an another, an in TO Mr.. Gaskell's, him
- owns the buildin'. l was known by
the clarks, who always bought from me,
an Master George, the masters only son,
though he was a sort of head clark, would
buy like the rest, and he had a great
habit OF jokin' with me. But that day
che ovid gintlemin happened to hear him
IN his Office, an he ken out in a high
timper an SEE be to me, "You kape out
o. here wild your basket, for you day
moralize the clerks from their business"
s'As you place, sir, T" SEE ], bowld enough,
though 1t was two dollars a week out o.
my pocket, an out / whit. Master
George, he was angry, an gev me q
quarter, an said he'd buy Of me whin he
had a chance. And ! was so Hurried wild
the cantankerous ovid gintleman-but it's
o good man he is, for all that-that I
dropped q cross that 1 keep about me for
1uck-it KEN from Rome an was blessed
by the holy father himself, an / niver
missed It till I got home.
had Just got of the dishes from the
table, an was clearin' up from my bit Of
fay, an Miss Bashford. who had come In
from her room, was talkin' wild me, whin
ther was q rap at the dure, an whin 1
said Come In" who should march into
the room but George, as bowld as brass,
wid my cross. You dropped this In the
Office" he saz, 'an' as l knew where We
Lived I thought I'd bring IL to We, an"
Wild that he stared like a stuck pig at Miss
Bashford, an, ye may behave Ine, whin /
looked at her she was as white as the
wall. "Cherryw sez he. "Mr. Gaskell,n
sec she. An they begun 20 talk, an I
a-clatterin' the dishes an a-droppin' the
knives 30 as not TO be KNOWN 10 their
discoorse. But ! gethered enough TO
know that it's lovers they'd been. but she
he'd drapt him bekase he was rich an she
was poor; an Its drapt he wouldn't he,
not he.
After that George nd kape comm
roun' 10 my room, on some raison or other,
three nights in the wake, an II distrest
Miss Cherry ms much as 1t plased her.
ssFor,p seq she 10 me, "Mrs. McAvoy, his
father Is wantin' him 10 marry rich an
av we wor 10 be married he would be
ruined entirely" But I only laughed al
that 70 myself. Sure it's the way with
young girls, an i~spishully whin ther
ladies' bred AZ Miss Bashford was.
An 70 Il kept goin' on until wan even
En-, when Their KEN q rap Mt the dure at
the time ! was expectin' tn see George,
an I SEE. "Come int, an Miss Cherry's
eyes frightened, IN who should walk In
but the ovid gintleman, Mr.. Gaskell,
himself. Owl wow sez l 10 myself. His
eyes snapped, but he was as polite rs .
dancin' master. Miss Bashford," seq
-, ~ presume" payin' no attention TO
- the mistress Of the mansion, which